ME-ZA

corvée gang, labour gang (personnel term); the word of MA-ZA

𐘋MEAB1312 entries𐘍ZAAB1715 entries
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Reading
massu
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*mass- ‘forced labor, corvée levy, labor gang’
Kind
Personnel
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Akkadianmassumassu ‘corvée worker’: idi LÚ.MEŠ ma-zi ‘wages for the corvée workers’ (Wiseman Alalakh 246:6); LÚ.MEŠ ma-as-sa.MEŠ (EA 365:14) (CAD M/1 327)
  • Hebrewmasmas ‘corvée, labour gang’ (1 Kgs 5:27)

Attestations2 cited

  1. HT 10aME-ZA 3corvée gang, labour gang, 3
  2. HT 85bME-ZA 1corvée gang, labour gang (personnel term); the word of MA-ZA

Commentary

HT 10a .8 ME-ZA 3, the last issue under KU-NI-SU ‘emmer’, after DA-RE 16½, U-*325-ZA and DA-RI-DA 8 (GORILA I 20–21); HT 85b ME-ZA 1, among single entries under KI-KI-RA-JA beside QA-*310-I qaynī ‘smith’ (GORILA I 130–131). Alalakh writes the gang ma-zi and issues it grain (CAD M/1 327), as HT 10a issues ME-ZA 3. The word of MA-ZA mazza (ZA 10b); ME for ma is a vowel mismatch only. Rival: the Hurrian name mzy, ma-zi-i (DULAT 600).

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon